Feb 10, 2020
The Graduate Students Association at Carleton University, along with the undersigned individuals and organizations belonging to the Carleton community call for the withdrawal of the RCMP from Wet’suwet’en territories and a peaceful resolution to the conflict currently taking place in British Columbia.
As members of the Carleton University community, we are fully committed to supporting Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination not only under Indigenous legal orders of the Wet’suwet’en, but also the Principles set out within the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as Article III of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We are concerned with the current and ongoing unchecked actions of the RCMP including setting up exclusionary zones on Wet’suwet’en territory, the forceful and violent removal of Indigenous land defenders, and the restriction of the free press on this matter.
Any further actions taken by the RCMP is a threat to reconciliation and the mending of relationships between Indigenous people and the canadian state. We, the undersigned, call on the RCMP to remove themselves from Wet’suwet’en territory. We additionally call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, BC Premiere John Horgan, and Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General David Lametti to meet with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs to resolve this conflict.
Signed, (To sign the letter please fill out this google form )
GSA-Carleton Executive Team
Ashley Courchene, President
Jesse Whattam, VP Finance
Namrata Tilokani, VP External
Shalimar Woods, VP Operations
Hemant Gupta, VP Academic
Carleton University Students’ Association
Lily Akagbosu, President
Jacob Howell, VP Finance
Farook Al-Muflehi, VP Internal
Sisi De Flaviis, VP Student Issues
George Owusu-Mensa, VP Student Services
Jamie Laxton, VP Student Life
Kahente Horn-Miller, Associate Professor
Co-chair of Carleton University Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Committee
Program Coordinator at Indigenous and Canadian Studies Department
School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies Department
Danika Billie LittleChild, Assistant Professor
Law and Legal Studies Department
Patricia McGuire, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Sebastien Mallette, Ph.D, Associate Professor
Law and Legal Studies Department
Bill Skidmore, Instructor
Institute of Disciplinary Studies (Human Rights & Social Justice)
Christiana Wilke, Associate Professor
Law and Legal Studies Department
Martha Attridge Butfon, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian
MacOdrum Library, Carleton University
Benny Michaud, Assistant Director of Equity Services & Responsible for the Centre for Indigenous Initiatives
Eva Mackey, Professor
School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Dr. Carmen Robertson, Full Professor
Canada Research Chair in North American Art & Material Culture
Mark Anderson, Professor
Department of History
John Kelly, Adjunct Research Professor
School of Journalism and Communications
CUPE 1281
Lyndall Musselman
CUPE 4600
Meg Lonergan
Pansee Atta
CUPE 2424
Jerrett Clark
CUSA Mawandoseg Centre
CUSA Womxn’s Centre
CUSA Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre
CUSA Racialized and International Student Experience Centre
CUSA Wellness Centre
OPIRG-Carleton
Engineers without Borders Carleton
Connor Ruprecht
First Peoples Council
Gavin Woodburn, Co-Chair
Wolfie Wuttke-Stanton, Co-Char
Graduate Student Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS)
Candace Kitchkeesick, Water Protector/Land defender
Cathy Agyemang, Cognitive Science, GSA-Carleton
Nathaniel Bruni, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, GSA-Carleton
Codie Fortin Lalonde, Ph.D Candidate and Contract Instructor
School of Linguistics and Language Studies, GSA-Carleton
Braden Phillipson, Public Policy and Administration, GSA-Carleton
Veronika Kratz, GSA Councillor
Kathlene Weary, CUSA President Elect
Tinu Akinwande, CUSA VP Student Issues Elect
Taryn Hepburn
Law and Legal Studies Department
Mohammad Akbar, Director of Communications
GSA-Carleton
Kanatase Horn
Law and Legal Studies
Anna Hoefnagel
School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Roni Gerrard
Social Work and Indigenous Studies
Deeya Devaiah
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rufes Stephen John Sundarraj
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Hisham Al Khatib
English Department
Bridgette Desjardins, PhD Candidate
Law and Legal Studies Department
Molly Stollmeyer
Institute of Political Economy
Catherine Littlefield
Faculty of Public Affairs
Aliqa Illauq
Law and Legal Studies Department
Hanna Milne
Human Rights & Social Justice
Sandi Quesnel Malanka
School of Social Work
Kirstin Pulles
Bachelor of Global and International Studies
Melissa Pole
School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Carmen Warner, Carleton University Senate Representative
Shawn Menard, Ottawa City Councillor & Carleton Alumni
Phil Robinson, Carleton Alumni
Camille Wait, Carleton Alumni
